Word: paper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper delivered by Otto Eckstein, professor of Economics and former member of the Council of Economic Advisors, in late January at the Institutional Investor Conference in New York raises the fascinating, if nebulous, possibility that ending the war in Vietnam may make such social capital available...
Though he owns three small papers elsewhere in New England, he put his major effort into making a success of the Haverhill (Mass.) Journal. He started the paper in 1957, when the city's only other daily, the Gazette, was crippled by a strike. The Gazette continued to publish, but Loeb lured away its advertisers by offering them payments for long-term contracts. In 1965, after the Gazette sued Loeb for trying to put it out of business, a court ordered him to pay the Gazette $1,100,000; shortly after, he shut down the Journal...
Stephen Lerner's record of a night in jail, arrested for selling Avatar, is a model of the tone the paper's writers usually miss. However, by over-working the February 5 mass arrest on the six preceding pages--because of editorial lack of coordination--the effect of this fine piece is blunted...
...length or first-person narration doesn't ruin an Avatar article, lack of direction will. For example, just when we expect John Wilton (in "Avatar a Newspaper at Last") to define the paper's objects, he wanders off to explain why he got a haircut...
Issue number 19 makes liking Avatar difficult. When Cambridge stops suppressing it, and people stop buying Avatar out of sympathy, its editors will have to either improve the paper or rely, for survival, on pity...